Making up a whole new language to reflect our cultural infantilization

Interesting to run across this right after composing the previous post:

Some left-wing activists are literally afraid to discuss some topics in the fear of violating a hidden norm that they had failed to be aware of. Good intentions and a history of thinking all the “right” things are no defense when you run afoul of whatever new idea reflects that day’s reality.

We saw a perfect example of this type of sordid drama play out last night and this morning, when Oliver Willis, one of Media Matters’ resident hacks, got caught in the buzzsaw. Allow us to stifle our schadenfreude for a moment—it is always amusing to watch the left eat their own, never moreso than when one of those being eaten is an architect of the system destroying him—and instead focus on how insane the whole thing is.

What unspeakably horrible thing did Willis do to earn the anger of the Twitter mob? He dared point out that most people, even those on the left, are completely and utterly ignorant of the way transgendered (or “trans*” because we need to make these things as difficult as possible) activists demand their issues be discussed, so, you know, maybe cut people a little slack when they don’t know what ridiculous additions to the language like “cisgender” mean?***

Oliver Willis: History’s greatest monster.

Now, again, Willis is the sort of guy who spends all his time disingenuously attacking the right as racist and sexist and homophobic. You’d think he’d be safe. But, of course, there’s nothing the totalitarian hates more than those on his own side with insufficient fervor. So when Willis tried to cisplain**** to all the trans activists and their allies that some people don’t know what in the hell they’re prattling on about, well, he was first against the wall.

“how am i sposed to know the right terms? it hasn’t come up. this stuff hasn’t been mainstream [all the sics],” he complained. But the revolutionary fails to understand that ignorance is no excuse. As a result, he was denounced for his bigotry. He was accused of ignoring the transgendered. He was vilified for telling an oppressed minority how to behave. You can check out his Twitter feed if you like; I don’t have the strength to do a whole Twitchy.

Even Freedom-Haters have to scramble to keep pace with what constitutes ideological purity in this age of hourly readjustment.  But scramble they must to avoid the proverbial ice pick to the back of the noggin.